Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Night and Day (2nd Edition) Author: Rowan Speedwell Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 52 Pages At a Glance: Rowan Speedwell’s unique delivery of Night and Day tells a charming and fantastical and sweetly romantic story. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Nate Pederowski is about as far down as he can go when he’s tipped to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Song of Achilles Author: Madeline Miller Narrator: Frazer Douglas Publisher: HarperCollins Length/Run Time: 416 Pages/11 hours and 18 minutes Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: If you’ve ever finished a book and felt bereft at its ending, then you know exactly how I feel after reading and listening to this outstanding novel. It... Continue Reading →
I had a lot of inspirations for writing The Lusty Adventures of Theseus. But one of the biggest, and I swear I'm not kidding, was Flesh Gordon. Not FLASH Gordon. FLESH Gordon. As in the 70's-tastic, utterly campy soft porn parody. My earliest days of technical adulthood coincided with the earliest days of Netflix, and... Continue Reading →
I had to do quite a bit of rewrites to parts of Night and Day before it could be republished. Copyright laws have gotten significantly more stringent in the past few years, and it seems like every week there are new lawsuits popping up, dealing with various intellectual property issues. There is generally an agreed... Continue Reading →
Title: Peace (The Four Horsemen: Book Five) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 163 Pages At a Glance: Lam may not be one of the Four Horsemen, but he deserved his own book and he got a good one! Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: When falling in love means risking everything, an angel must... Continue Reading →
Title: Death (The Four Horsemen: Book Four) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 167 Pages At a Glance: My favorite out of the Four Horsemen books. How can you not love Death? Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Death, the Pale Rider and the most feared member of the Four Horsemen, has been searching through the centuries... Continue Reading →
Title: Famine (The Four Horsemen: Book Three) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 140 Pages At a Glance: Book three in the Four Horseman series is entertaining, even if not as good as the others. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Saving a dying man might be just what Famine, the Black Horseman, needs to feed his... Continue Reading →
Title: The High King’s Will (Steel for the Prince: Book One) Author: M.A. Ray Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 185 Pages At a Glance: The High King’s Will takes off on an exciting and action packed adventure. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: "The High King's will crushes all before it. ...Fare well, Eagle Eye Wormsbane. If you... Continue Reading →
Title: Pestilence (The Four Horsemen: Book One) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 170 Pages At a Glance: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in a romance novel? Yes, please! Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: For Pestilence, the White Horseman, love becomes the most powerful cure. Having lost his wife and child during the Black Death,... Continue Reading →
Title: Stealing the Wind (Mermen of Ea Trilogy: Book One) Author: Shira Anthony Narrator: Michael Stellman Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours and 31 Minutes At a Glance: Shira Anthony has a way of making a world come alive, which made me feel like I was on the ship and under the sea with... Continue Reading →
Title: 1KRV5 Author: S. Zanne Publisher: Inkstained Succubus Press Pages/Word Count: 67 Pages At a Glance: The next time you’re in the mood for a short story that offers a little something outside the norm, something a bit different, I’d recommend giving this one a go. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: The world of genetic experimentation... Continue Reading →
Title: Tempestuous Tides (Mermen and Magic: Book Two) Author: L.M. Brown Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 270 Pages At a Glance: An engaging sequel that furthers and enhances the amazing world L.M. Brown has created. Reviewed By: Angel Blurb: Bound by a curse, two mermen find the greatest love of their lives, but can they... Continue Reading →
Title: Running with the Wind (Mermen of Ea: Book Three) Author: Shira Anthony Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 220 Pages At a Glance: I loved the book. I absolutely, whole-heartedly recommend it. Go! Read! Now! Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: With the final confrontation between the island and mainland Ea factions looming, Taren and Ian sail... Continue Reading →
Title: Back to the Dream (Dreamlands: Book Two) Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: DSP Publications Pages/Word Count: 314 Pages At a Glance: Slower pacing than the first novel, with frequent character changes, but still a good story. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Although Inuzaka Keno has found freedom and love in the Dreamlands with oni Samojirou Aboshi,... Continue Reading →
Title: Claw (Gothika: Volume Three) Authors: Jamie Fessenden, Kim Fielding, Eli Easton Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 220 Pages At a Glance: All three authors’ stories are unique not only in voice but in storyline too, and unlike with some anthologies I’ve read in the past, there isn’t a clunker story in this bunch. Reviewed... Continue Reading →
Title: Sand and Ruin and Gold Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 48 Pages At a Glance: An interesting twist on mermaids in a dystopian-esque setting. Blurb: Once upon a time . . . that’s how the old stories always begin. Once upon a time there was a king of a fallen kingdom. He was just and... Continue Reading →
Title: Natural Instincts Author: M. Raiya Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 54 Pages At a Glance: Strange but good story involving mythology, a mathematical genius, and a loon Blurb: Most people would consider near perfect recall, an ability to crunch numbers that rivals a computer's, and an uncanny knack for predicting the stock market to be remarkable... Continue Reading →
Title: Mythica Author: L.J. LaBarthe Publisher: Bottom Drawer Publications Pages/Word Count: 235 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Caiden Jones is part-selkie and lives an idyllic life by the sea in South Australia. He’s had his fair share of disappointments, like being kept out of the Navy due to his mythica status, but overall he’s got... Continue Reading →
Sex Underwater A big thank you to The Novel Approach for having me! I'm Chris T. Kat and Dreamspinner Press will publish my new release, Tidal Change, on September 17th. Tidal Change is a shape-shifter story but it also has fantasy/fairy tale elements because the main character, Marty, is a merman. Given that Marty is... Continue Reading →
Title: Greymalkin (Melusine’s Cats: Book One) Author: Chris Quinton Publisher: Kouros Books Pages/Word Count: 188 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: The mutual attraction between Jesse and Will is a bonus for Melusine when her enemies close in and she needs to rebuild her war band—starting with Jesse, Will, and Greymalkin. Jesse Adams is an ex-rugby... Continue Reading →
Title: Greymalkin (Melusine’s Cats: Book One) Author: Chris Quinton Publisher: Kouros Books Pages/Word Count: 188 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: The mutual attraction between Jesse and Will is a bonus for Melusine when her enemies close in and she needs to rebuild her war band—starting with Jesse, Will, and Greymalkin. Jesse Adams is an ex-rugby... Continue Reading →
“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.” ― Chuck Palahniuk Title: Lightning Rod (Broken Mirrors #2) Author: Vaughn R. Demont Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 312 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Always stand. Never fall. If I could offer one piece of advice now, as I fall past the... Continue Reading →
Title: Lightning Rod Series: Broken Mirrors: Book Two Author: Vaughn R. Demont Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 312 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: If you’re a fan of Urban Fantasy, even in the very slightest, I can’t recommend this series enough. It reads effortlessly, stole hours of time from my weekend,... Continue Reading →
Title: Coyote’s Creed Series: Broken Mirrors: Book One Author: Vaughn R. Demont Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 273 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Delve into Coyote's Creed for the pure delight of Vaughn R. Demont’s imagination and the sheer enjoyment of a kid with a noble heart, a wicked flair for... Continue Reading →
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